They're already starting an attack on FOSS (free open source software) with FB declaring Linux news/content a security threat .

The actual threat is to the for-profit golden geese and billionaire egos that just got dunked by a free alternative.

Edit to add source: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

Well, in the case of the OP, the alternative is the manufacturer: https://www.ifixit.com/Tools

Imagine that being your fuel for every day. Oh, and while you're at it, wrangle one or more small [animal-like] children all day, keep the entire house clean, and dinner better be ready when I get home--it's been a hard day at work. And stop being such a bitch, eh?

The booze was less of a diet aid and more of an anti-psychotic, I assume.

Turns out addiction is more of a debuff. Congrats and admiration to you, Bizzle!

I think we're about to see FOSS under siege by the technocrats, and it's going to be depressingly effective since most people have no idea why it's so fundamentally important to the world of tech.

I'll use this space as a gentle reminder of one the internet's oldest rules, everybody:

It's like those showerthought ultimatums : You can choose to gain eternal life, but every day your dick is the subject of the worst pain you've ever felt.

With a healthy enough dose, you can speedrun this by cutting the eggs, coffee, wine, and steak.

I'll be honest, there's some fiddling, but you can run a jellyfin server from a laptop/desktop pretty easily for home streaming.

If you can find your way to the jellyfin-server installer for your OS, and point it at a library folder, just putting media in that folder is all you have left to do--it pretty much takes care of the rest, and all streams over your local home network.

Living day-to-day life like a Diablo minmaxer.

[Stares shamefully at sparsely populated Obsidian vault, thinking about all bullshit I tinker with just long enough to set it up and forget how the next time I go back to it]

And if you're not a 50 year-old Linux admin, Arch wiki.

Edit: don't be put off by the Arch wiki if you don't use Arch. 99% of the time, Linux is Linux, and you can follow it for just about anything other than package management.

My initial instinct is that it's not about security (obviously), but the beginning of the attack of FOSS, since China dunked on everyone with their AI model, that can now be used by anyone freely while performing similarly (with the appropriate resources) rather than the ever-growing product making you pay for their useless snake oil.

I think a lot of this kind of bullshit is more of an HR strategy rather than actual business strategy, but most of those are probably just as vapid.

Thank you!

Yes, @taytay, free as in liberty, not free as in beer--but don't kid yourself, if there's a chance of doing anything remotely useful or groundbreaking with any of those for free, that number likely rounds to 0.

Help me out, best I can come up with is "gargled", and man does that really change the meaning of the headline for me.

How else are you going to reason with animals?

I don't fully disagree with you, but the problem isn't making fun of ignorant assholes though. It's leadership and representation having an utter lack of strategy other than "we're not Republicans" while getting fat off their positions.

This is the first time I've heard of this, and I pretty much always have more than one DE installed and have never run into issues. Assuming you're using a display manager (SDDM, LightDM, etc.), it should handle loading whichever graphical session at the time of login properly.

edit: For clarity, what do you mean by "installing another DE *on top * of an existing one"--like kludging two DEs together in the same X/Wayland session? If so, that sounds like a horrible mistake that lead to that happening.

If they don't have something to be angry about, they don't have anything at all to say. It appears that fine-tuning the ragebait algos for max engagement has had a persistent negative effect.